Fourth year Visual Arts student Brittany Brooks has just released a CD titled Shadow Songs as well as a feature video for the song Oh Susana.
For more information and to view the video please click HERE.
Brittany Brooks, Creature Speak, Oh Susana, Shadow Songs
Categories: Alumni, Current Students, News
The photography of Visa instructor Amy Friend will be featured an the upcoming exhibition.
Amy Friend: Dare alla Luce
December 4 > January 30, 2016
Opening Friday, December 4th at 5:00pm
For more information please click HERE.
Pictura Gallery
122 West 6th Street
Bloomington, IN
Amy Friend, Dare alla Luce, Exhibition
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Visual Arts Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:
Stories of the City Exhibition
SB Contemporary
1017 Church Street
Hamilton
Open 12pm – 4pm, Wednesday through Saturday November 6 – 23
33 University Ave. West
Open 1pm – 6pm, Friday and Saturday November 20 – December 5 (or by appointment)
For more information click HERE.
(F)NOR
Hamilton Artist Inc Craft Mart.
December 11 and 12
For more information click HERE.
(F)NOR, donna akrey, exhibitions, Stories of the City
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Photography Instructor Amy Friend is part of the following events:
CRITICAL MASS
Amy Friend is one of fifty photographers included in Critical Mass. The selection is based on a juried portfolio process by 200 curators and professionals in the art field. For more information on this click HERE.
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE FOTOGRAFÍA GUATEPHOTO 2015
Amy’s work is featured in the group exhibition titled, Seeing Connections, in Antigua, Guatemala, curated by Dr. Rebecca Senf (Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum and Creative Center for Photography, USA).
Amy will also present the recently published monograph from the same series at the Photobook exhibition in the Guatemala Photo Festival, and she will also participate as a panelist at the Museo Arte de Guatemala in Guatemela City on November 21, 2015. This panel discussion will focus on New Initiatives and Platforms for Photography on an international scale.
For more information click HERE.
Visa drawing Instructor Judy Graham will be exhibiting drawings at the Niagara Artists Centre, opening Nov. 7th, 2-4 p.m.
Judy Graham, Niagara Artists Centre
Categories: Faculty & Instructors, News
Visa Instructor Irene Loughlin presents performance art work at kilometrocero International Festival of Performance Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Nov 5-9, 2015.
The Festival Internacional de Performance Kilometro Cerø will be held in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic from november 5th till 9th. It is produced by El Arañazo, a Santo Domingo-based cultural organization that specializes in literature and performance art. This year, the Festival’s curatorial theme is “Puntos de Partida” (“Points of Departure”). In the view of the Festival’s organizers, the Western point of view of Dominican Republic history positions Santo Domingo as the epicentre of America’s conquest and evangelism. El Aranzo states, “That condition, together with all the importance that we, the Dominican people brag about, seldom generates meditation upon the idiosyncratic contradictions of a society which, starting from dislocation, was raised into a pretend tropical paradise.” From this “departure point” Kilometro Cero’s events plan to de-construct and rethink a tradition that has been sold and/or imposed for more that five centuries.
“Invisible Histories”, phone app, 2015
Monday, October 19 – Saturday, November 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, October 23, 2015, 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Visual Arts Gallery, 15 Artists’ Common
Satellite is the collected media art works by Donna Szoke, from 2011 to present. It is literally a satellite show of the exhibition Cloud, installed and running now at Rodman Hall Art Centre. While Cloud coalesces print, sculpture and multiples into one body of work, Satellite presents digital drawings, single channel video and media art works that speak to the ethereal regions of digital art practice. These digital artworks investigate the invisible, elided and mysterious.
This exhibition is running now at the Visual Arts Gallery, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines, and is a free community event!
Donna Szőke, “Decoy”, 2015 acrylic paint on ABS plastic, ceramic plate
Saturday, October 10, 2015 – Sunday, January 17, 2016
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 2015, 3 – 5 p.m.
Location: Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines
Cloud is an assemblage of limited-edition prints and objects that explores relational meaning. Donna Szőke has created a collection of works that convey messages that are sometimes absurd, often humorous, never singular, but existing in relation to other parts of the whole. The materials chosen for the prints usually have an association with the text or message. For Decoy, the artist made a series of 3D-printed, trompe l’oeil Tim Horton’s doughnuts. The relationship between the doughnut and the hole, the original and the copy, the single and the baker’s dozen, may be confounding or irrational, but serves to point out how ideas are ephemeral structures.
The artist writes: “Absurdity, irrationality, immanence, failure and anachronism are the unifying themes of Cloud… Ideas arise and are fleeting. They form, peak and disappear in sets of relationships to other ideas. Insights echo across instances of ideas.”
This exhibition is running now at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent in downtown St. Catharines, and is a free community event!
Visa Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:
Nuit Blanche in Toronto and Disfigureitout
Andrew McPhail and Donna Akrey
Hundred Dollar Gallery
4 Cannon Street East
Hamilton
Oct. 9 – Nov. 9, 2015
Opening Oct. 9
7 – 10 pm
VISA Instructor Irene Loughlin presents work at Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts.
Saturday – Sunday, October 3 – 4, 2015, 7 pm – 7 am
Admission: Free
Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Public Gallery 1214 Queen Street West
Double Take
Live Performances: 7 pm – 1 am
Under the theme of Memory Lane, established performance artist Irene Loughlin and six Workman Arts artists create site specific performances responding to individual artworks presented at the 15th annual Being Scene exhibition installed in the 2nd floor public gallery at the Gladstone Hotel. The hotel is more than 125 years old and its walls have been witness to several transformations over the years. This theme has particular resonance to the Gladstone as we remember some of the building’s past tenants, some who struggled with mental health and addiction issues and it reflects the hotel’s relationship to the changing neighbourhood as it continues to negotiate ways of sharing public and private spaces. Through this project we collectively aim to look back and perform new modes of moving forward that are informed by inclusivity, questioning, creative response, and well-being in its myriad forms.
Co-presented by Workman Arts, FADO Performance Art Centre, and the Gladstone Hotel